zorrilho
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Borrowed from Spanish zorrillo. By surface analysis, zorro + -ilho.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iʎu
- Hyphenation: zor‧ri‧lho
Noun
[edit]zorrilho m (plural zorrilhos)
- (Rio Grande do Sul) Andes skunk (Conepatus chinga)
- 2001 March 11, Baitaca (lyrics and music), “Do Fundo da Grota” (0:58 from the start), in Meu Rio Grande é Deste Jeito, Caxias do Sul: Gravadora Vozes:
- Na boca da noite / Me aparece um zorrilho / Vem mijar perto de casa / Pra enticar com a cachorrada
- /zuˈʁiʎu/
- At nightfall, a skunk appears, coming to pee near my house and provoke my dogs.
Further reading
[edit]- “zorrilho”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “zorrilho”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
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